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EDITORIAL. 
John  H.  Rauch,  M.D.,  Prof,  of  Botany. 
N.  Gray  Bartlett,  Pharmaceutist,  Prof,  of  Theory  and  Practice  of 
Pharmacy. 
The  fees  for  tuition  are  :  For  matriculation,  $2  ;  lectures,  including  all 
the  branches  taught,  S30 ;  diploma  fee,  $5. 
This  effort  has  our  best  wishes,  and,  seconded  by  the  well  known  energy 
of  its  supporters,  we  have  no  doubt  that  it  will  prove  a  success.  The 
adoption  of  as  high  a  standard  of  preparation  as  possible  to  be  practicable 
will  be  wise,  especially  in  view  of  the  probable  changes  which  may  arise 
from  the  proposed  Congress  of  Colleges  proposed  by  the  Maryland 
College. 
Pharmacy  in  New  J ersey — The  initiative  in  the  late  movement  towards 
organizing  the  pharmaceutists  of  New  Jersey  appears  to  have  been  taken 
at  Newark,  N.  J.,  by  a  call  published  in  the  newspapers  of  that  city  call- 
ing for  a  joint  meeting  of  physicians  and  druggists  to  draft  a  law  "  to 
regulate  the  sale  of  poisons."  At  that  meeting  (Jan.  26th)  a  committee 
was  appointed  to  notify  all  the  druggists  in  the  State  of  an  adjourned 
meeting  to  be  held  at  Newark  on  the  17th  of  February.  At  the  meeting 
then  held  the  Committee  reported  a  draft  of  a  law,  based  on  that  of  the 
Chicago  meeting.  About  sixty  druggists  were  present,  and  the  proposed 
law  discussed,  amended  and  approved,  and  a  committee  appointed  to 
present  it  to  the  Legislature.  This  law  makes  a  State  Society  a  necessity. 
The  meeting  adjourned  to  Feb.  24th,  same  place,  to  perfect  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  "  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association."  This  was  ac- 
complished, a  Constitution  and  By-Laws  were  adopted,  and  officers 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  the  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  in  Tren- 
ton March  24th,  at  ]0|  o'clock,  A.M.  The  meeting  at  Trenton  took 
place,  but  at  this  writing  we  have  not  been  informed  of  its  results. 
Pharmacy  in  Europe. — The  following  information,  which  has  been 
gathered  from  Pharmaceuttsch  Zeitung  and  other  journals,  possesses 
more  or  less  interest.  The  law  of  21  Germ.,  XII,  created  in  France 
three  pharmaceutical  schools, — at  Paris,  at  Strassburg,  and  at  Montpel- 
lier, — for  the  education  and  examination  of  apothecaries  of  the  first  class. 
Apothecaries  of  the  second  class  were  examined  by  a  medical  jury  (one 
being  located  in  each  department),  and  could  establish  themselves  in 
business  only  in  the  department  in  which  they  had  been  examined.  In 
the  departments  of  Seine,  Herauet,  and  Bas  Rhin,  containing  the  phar- 
maceutical schools,  pharmaciens  of  . the  first  class  only  could  carry  on 
business.  The  law  of  August  22, 1854,  discontinued  the  Juries  Medicates 
and  established  twenty-one  preparatory  schools  for  medicine  and  phar- 
macy, where  pharmaciens  of  the  second  class  are  examined.  These  may, 
however,  submit  to  an  examination  for  the  same  degree  at  one  of  the 
pharmaceutical  schools.  In  regard  to  the  location  of  these  pharmaciens, 
the  Minister  of  Education,  by  a  decree  of  Dec.  23, 1854,  sustained  the  old 
law,  but  this  decree  was  abrogated  Nov.  30,  1867,  by  Minister  of  Educa- 
